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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

In the meeting of my Intermediate Robotics lecture class for the fourth week of the second term,we had our first long exam.

Now, since I really didn't have any lectures presented for that class, I couldn't have a test based on the lectures (which I hoped played havoc with the routine of a certain student).

I had one lecture about serial ports, but that's really more for the class of Integrated Computer Systems than for the NMEDROB class since we did not use serial ports yet anytime after that, so that definitely was out of the coverage of the exam.

Besides, that was only for one session, so that was only enough material for a quiz, not an exam that's a fourth of half of their grade.

Another thing is, even though I did not announce about the exam during any of the meetings preceding, I did give them that information during the first meeting of the class as incontrovertible, so it was understood that they would know that.

The coverage of the exam was therefore what they had been dealing with since the first week of classes, which is the design of robots.

I asked for three designs, one for cooperative or coordinating robots, one for communicating robots, and one last for competing robots.

This gave the assumption that there are more than one robot with the same design, and with the same program that had to exist.

I also gave a bonus where they were to provide concrete examples of the three types of robots, that if it was good enough to use, I would give them an additional twenty percent for that exam.

So it really was a test not just of their creativity but also how well they knew and used the materials with which we have been working.

I was hoping moving out of the realm of mere book-learning would catch a certain student unprepared, and expose his slavery to specific structures.

I will provide more details next time about this exam that I gave my students.

Session 1339 is like an ant with a limited program installed. Class dismissed.